The Week in Early American History

Welcome back for week two! Things will be going quiet around the Junto for the next few days over Christmas, and on behalf of the entire Junto, we want to wish you a happy holiday. In the meantime we have a few links to tide you over when you need a few minutes to browse the internet.

The Omohundro Institute is sponsoring a conference entitled, “Africans in the Americas: Making Lives in a New World, 1675-1825.” The Institute has just posted the schedule for the conference, which will be held at the University of the West Indies in Barbados from March 14 to 17, 2013.

If you don’t keep an eye on American History TV on C-SPAN3, you should definitely check it out this weekend to see Historiann lecture on the history of women’s undergarments. Her post includes some background on how she became interested in the topic, why she includes it in her American Women’s History course, and a bibliography.

What is “The Junto?”

The Junto is a group blog made up of junior early Americanists—graduate students and junior faculty—dedicated to providing content of general interest to other early Americanists and those interested in early American history, as well as a forum for discussion of relevant historical and academic topics.